Hellenic Exchanges S.A. Holding, Clearing, Settlement And Registry announces that today, May 19th 2010, the 9th Annual General Meeting of shareholders of the Company was held in the "HERMES" hall at the offices of the Company. Shareholders representing 27,436,529 common registered shares and voting rights, i.e. 41.97% of the 65,368.563 total common registered shares participated.
The General Meeting took the following decisions:- On the 1st item, shareholders approved the Financial Report of the ninth (9th) fiscal year (01.01.2009 - 31.12.2009) which includes the Annual Financial Statements of the ninth (9th) fiscal year (01.01.2009 - 31.12.2009) together with the relevant Reports by the Board of Directors and the Auditors.
- On the 2nd item, shareholders approved the distribution of profits for the ninth (9th) fiscal year (01.01.2009 - 31.12.2009) as follows:
- in the amount of EUR2,060,035.75 for the creation of a regular reserve.
- in the amount of EUR14,381,084.00 for the dividend for the ninth fiscal year.
- the balance of EUR131,274,915.76 is transferred to retained earnings. Concerning the dividend of 0.22 euro per share, the proposed ex-date and beneficiary determination date, based on the record date rule, of May 26th and 28th respectively were approved, and the corresponding amount will be paid to shareholders on Thursday June 3rd 2010, through their operators. Shareholders that have not granted, or have revoked the relevant authorization to the operator to collect the dividend in the DSS, or have their shares in the Special Account of their Investor's Share Securities Account kept with DSS, will be able to receive the dividend through the branch network of Piraeus Bank starting on Wednesday June 9th 2010.
Furthermore, following the abovementioned changes, and in order to fulfill the terms of §1 of article 37 of Law 3693/2008, shareholders approved the new composition of the Audit Committee which now consists of Mr. Nikolaos Milonas - Chairman and independent non-executive member, Mr. Ulysses Kyriakopoulos - independent non-executive member and Adamantini Lazari - non-executive member.
- Item 9: Reduction of the share capital in the amount of EUR8,497,913.19 euro through a reduction in the par value of each share by 0.13 euro, and payment of this amount to shareholders. Item 10: Amendment of article 5 of the Articles of Association concerning the share capital.
- Item 11: Taking a decision on the spinoff of the clearing of transactions sector of the company and its contribution to the legal person (societe anonyme) with the name "Athens Exchange Clearing House S.A." in accordance with the provisions of articles 1-5 of law 2166/1993, and specification of agents and representatives of the company who will sign in front of a notary the act of contribution of the clearing of transactions sector.
In order to discuss and decide the abovementioned items, the General Meeting will convene again in a 1st Repetitive General Meeting on Wednesday 02.06.2010 at 18:00, in Athens, at the headquarters of the Company, in accordance with the original Invitation of the BoD of the Company of 19.04.2010.